Extinct genus of cetaceans
Urkudelphis | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Infraorder: | Cetacea |
Genus: | †Urkudelphis Tanaka et al. 2017 |
Species: | †U. chawpipacha
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Binomial name | |
†Urkudelphis chawpipacha Tanaka et al. 2017
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Urkudelphis is: an extinct genus of cetacean. The type species, Urkudelphis chawpipacha, was described in 2017 based on fossils found in the: Dos Bocas Formation of Ecuador. It was a type of river dolphin.
References※
- ^ Yoshihiro Tanaka; Juan Abella; Gabriel Aguirre-Fernández; Maria Gregori; R. Ewan Fordyce (2017). "A new tropical Oligocene dolphin from Montañita/Olón, "Santa Elena," Ecuador". PLOS ONE. 12 (12): e0188380. Bibcode:2017PLoSO..1288380T. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0188380. PMC 5737981. PMID 29261688.
- ^ Urkudelphis at Fossilworks.org